Unknowing Fanaticism by Lerner Ross;

Author:Lerner, Ross;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I have benefited from the advice, support, and engagement of many people while writing this book—more than I can remember and name. I would especially like to thank my mentors. Jeff Dolven, Daniel Heller-Roazen, D. Vance Smith, and Nigel Smith have been extraordinary teachers and interlocutors. This book would not have been possible without them. They remain models of intelligence, generosity, engagement, and writerly style.

I owe a large debt to the other friends, colleagues, and teachers who have read and commented on pieces of this book at various stages and who have left their own unique marks on me and significantly improved my writing and thinking: Leonard Barkan, Alex Dubilet, Will Evans, Victoria Kahn, Russ Leo, Giulio Pertile, Ramsey McGlazer, Warren Montag, Matthew Spellberg, Amelia Worsley, and Emily Vasiliauskas.

Others have discussed with me ideas related to this book, asked incisive questions when I have presented shorter drafts of chapters, or helped me reflect on the stakes of this kind of work; their impact has been extremely important. I am thankful to David Alff, Kristel Faye Baldoz, Zahid Chaudhary, Bradin Cormack, Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot, Andrea Gadberry, Rae Gaubinger, Bill Gleason, Zoe Gibbons, Leon Grek, John Guillory, Matthew Harrison, Brook Henkel, Jessie Hock, Nat Lippert, Sangina Patnaik, James Martel, Meredith Martin, Andrew Miller, Joe Moshenska, Subha Mukherji, Philip Pettit, Orlando Reade, Eileen Reeves, Sarah Rivett, Lindsay Reckson, Francisco Robles, John Rogers, James Rutherford, Gayle Salamon, Bea Sanford Russell, Elias Sacks, Starry Schor, Debora Shuger, Kelly Swartz, Elise Wang, Julianne Werlin, Rowan Williams, Melanie Webb, Andrew Norman Wilson, Jessica Wright, Liesl Yamaguchi, and Dora Zhang. Thank you to audiences at the University of Cambridge and its Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, the University of Colorado–Boulder, New York University, Princeton University (especially forums at the Renaissance Workshop, the University Center for Human Values, and the Center for the Study of Religion), the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Comparative Literature Association. My earlier teachers may not have engaged this work directly, but their influences are here, too; thanks especially to Kim Benston, Stephen Finley, Laura McGrane, Ulrich Schönherr, and Christina Zwarg for their formative care and commitment. Kim was my first guide through the poems of Donne and Milton, and his instruction continues to influence how I read.

As I recast and completed this book at Occidental College, my ideas for it evolved in conversation with, and thanks to the support of, Mijin Cha, Dan Fineman, James Ford III, Jane Hong, Kathy Izumi, Sarah Kozinn, Ainsley LeSure, Krystale Littlejohn, Warren Montag, Kelema Moses, Leila Neti, Kristi Upson-Saia, and Jean Wyatt. I am grateful as well to Wendy Sternberg, dean of the college, and to the Louis and Hermione Brown Humanities Support Fund for financial support that aided this project at a late stage.

I have discussed some of the texts and ideas addressed in this book with my students at Occidental, at Princeton, and at the Garden State and Albert C. Wagner Correctional Facilities in New Jersey; their insights and energy have made me productively reconsider what I thought I knew from fresh perspectives.

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